The Repair Café will return in February 2025 – we look forward to welcoming them back.
Join the Repair Cafe!
Repair Cafe is a neighbourhood initiative that promotes repair as an alternative to tossing things out. Residents can bring their broken items to fix them on the spot with the help of voluntary repairers. Diss has become a location for a Repair Cafe and could use more handy volunteers in the area.
Would you like to be a voluntary repairer?
Repair Cafe Diss is looking for local residents with different skills who can be present as repair experts during the Repair Cafe meetings.
The team are especially looking for people who are handy with:
Clothing/Textile
Bicycles
Electrical Applicances
Furniture/Wooden Objects
Computers
Social Media
Want to know more?
Come along to designermakers21 on the first Saturday of every month between 10.30am-1.30pm, and see what the Repair Cafe can do for you, and what you can do for it!
Nurture (verb) – care for and protect (someone or something) while they are growing
Thursday 4th July to Saturday 27th July Open Thursday-Saturday 10am to 5pm in the Upstairs Gallery at designermakers21
Saturday 20th July 11am-3pm – Meet the Makers
Design Nation is the leading membership portfolio for contemporary craft and design in the UK. The East Anglian group hub was formed in 2020, and connects makers working from their studios in Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk. Having met frequently over zoom for the past four years, six members have come together to exhibit their work. ‘Nurture’ encapsulates an exploration of each maker’s connections with their local environment.
Working across disciplines including Weave, Embroidery, Ceramics, French Beading and Mixed Media, the conversations, and connections, between makers’ practices centre around becoming increasingly environmentally conscious.
Makers draw upon a variety of backgrounds and experiences, from working in the fashion and textile industry, to an increasing awareness of the amount of plastic in everyday life. The impact of human activity and climate change on the East Anglian landscape, serve as a catalyst for all six makers to strive to reduce the environmental impact of their work. Many utilise waste materials; transforming single use plastic, paper pulp and nylon offcuts into highly tactile, contemporary art works, and repurposing textile industry surplus yarns to create handwoven interior pieces.
Where materials cannot be repurposed, artists make conscious decisions about sourcing sustainable materials, minimising waste and energy consumption. All seek to achieve balance and harmony with the natural environment.
Featuring Work by: Caroline Hyde-Brown Holly Parr Pamela Print Lucie Summers Kate Welton Karen Whiterod
Come along 11am-3pm to watch ‘reuse’ demonstrations, and try out a range of Craft processes. Some activities may require booking on the day. Donations welcome to support designermakersCIO ‘Raise Our Roof’ fundraising for essential building repairs.
REUSE Exhibition runs from 4th-25th May in the upstairs gallery at designermakers21, open Thursday to Saturday 10am-5pm.
An exhibition which celebrates giving things a new life.
Opens 4th May, and runs until 25th May in the upstairs gallery at designermakers21. Visit the exhibition Thursday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
Running in conjunction with the exhibition is ‘REUSE In Action’ on Saturday 11th May. Come along 11am-3pm to watch ‘reuse’ demonstrations, and try out a range of Craft processes. Some activities may require booking on the day. Donations welcome to support designermakersCIO ‘Raise Our Roof’ fundraising for essential building repairs.
